Headline on post page displays as "Auto Draft"
 

I just downloaded 3.4.9 version and trying to get the headline to render properly on the post page.

The headline renders on the index page, but not on the actual post page. I figured out how to get the kicker to display but underneath it are the words "Auto Draft" then under that the author and date is displayed.

How do I correct this?

first I suggest you use 3.5.1 (http://wordpress.bytesforall.com/?p=920
second search the forums, this has been answered already

I think it has nothing to do with atahualpha theme. I am using ATA 3.5.1 and it continuous created a new 'Auto Draft' to post table every time no matter what I update, save or do not save the page. Turing off post/page option doesn't solve this issue. I think it is related to wordpress 3's new feature auto-draft, I just don't know how to solve it. :confused:

johanM:
Do the posts that this is happening to have any custom fields starting with 'bfa'?

Sorry, I'm not a developer so your question is difficult to answer. Can you restate in laymen's terms please? :confused:

Go edit one of your posts that exhibits this issue
Look below the area you type the post, you may see an area of custom fields.
If you see the custom fields, do any start with bfa?

Nope. I meant there is NO effects on bfa_meta data unless the post/page has been saved AND the title is untouched.

The first post title 'Auto Draft', in fact, is created at the same time whenever a 'new page' created and wp will give a new post id to that empty data, when I change that 'default' title, and click 'update', it changed, but wp 3, created another empty line of 'Auto Draft' in the post table, following every update, it created another one...and so on.

a little research here

wp add to 3.0 on purpose, see http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/11889 :(

and http://wordpress.org/support/topic/411355

To skip with save it as 'Auto Draft', you can made a little modification on the ata's function.php to remove that 'Auto Draft', the funny title will be gone as wished, but this data still create on the db table.

I was getting this same issue on all my WP 3 sites. johanM's solution fixed it.

Me too - I've read through several posts in the forum but I'm afraid I'm terribly confused. I just want to be able to post to my blog with the actual title again. Also I've uploaded the 3.5.1 version to my host but can't figure out why it's not activating?

Thanks so much for your time and any assistance.

ETA: Finally, figured it out... what worked for me was figuring out how to upgrade to 3.5.1 (if it would have been a bear it would have bit me), and then deleting the custom fields at the end of the offending post that had "bfa". Thank you. :)

yep.

bfa_ata_body_title

'Auto Draft' is in the 'value' field. So I deleted it and now my headline shows up.

Does that fix the problem indefinitely or will I have to check w/ every post?

Thanks so much!

"ETA: Finally, figured it out... what worked for me was figuring out how to upgrade to 3.5.1 (if it would have been a bear it would have bit me), and then deleting the custom fields at the end of the offending post that had "bfa". Thank you."

So do tell about activating 3.5.1. I'd like to unzip it too but haven't a clue. :-)

If you are techie and know SSH, you can unzipped it on the host, otherwise unzipped it on your computer then upload the entire folder 'atahualpa351' to the wp-contents/themes folder and it will show up next time you go to dashboard->appearance->themes and you can activate it.

I found a workaround (that worked for me anyway) for the 'Auto Draft' problem that will get Atahualpa's metaname/values to work under an installation you've upgraded to WordPress 3.0 while using an older version of Atahualpa even if you haven't upgraded to Atahualpa 3.5.1, without disabling the post/page options (which I use a lot), without modifying code (functions.php) and without ripping the bfa_ata* fields out of your database. Yeah, I wanted the best of all worlds.

It's a simple change in how you use the Edit Page interface.

Type in your bfa_ata_* values, click 'Update' under each name. Then _get_out_ of the page dialog before you make any more changes. Next time you come back into the page editing interface, the bfa_ata* field values you last updated are still set. There's just some problem with synching up the Page 'Update' and the Atahualpa metavalue's 'Update', so they need to be done in separate operations. By the way, clicking update under the metaname then continuing to make regular page Updates without exiting the dialog will not work. You need to exit the Page editing interface then come back in.

I verified this behavior by watching my database through PhpMyAdmin as I made each change. As soon as I hit the metavalue's update field, the correct value was updated. But as soon as I hit the main page's Update, it overwrote my bfa_ata* values with 'Auto Draft'. If I exited the whole dialog first then came back in, subsequent Updates to the page content did not erase my last-updated values.

I see this problem only in sites where I updated both WordPress _and_ Atahualpa. I tested with a fresh install of WP 3.0 and Atahualpa 3.5.1 and this is not an issue.

Where do you put the mod exactly? Like before / after which lines? I've edited my functions.php file before and depending on what version of atahualpa you're using, line 603 is probably going to be different.

Thanks in advance for the help!

In functions.php replace with

Thanks for the help Larry!

added to the 'To Do' list for next release (see http://forum.bytesforall.com/showthread.php?t=7973 post #1)

I guess this issue is still outstanding?

Yes it is.

thank you, thank you, thank you!!

I'm now using Atahualpa 3.53.
You tell us to replace the first set of code with the second set of code but that second set of code (the one with auto draft in it) is the line that is already in my functions.php file.
So I thought... maybe they got it backwards. So, I replaced the second set of code with the first. No change. Changed it back. No change.
I set my post/page option to both yes and no. No luck.
Then I updated Wordpresss.
I tried the Yes/No option again. No luck.
I also tried simply deleting the words "auto draft" from the code. That didn't work either.
Is there a step I'm missing?
I have All in One SEO. Could that relate somehow?

Here is the text again and I have added some text to hopefully clarify.

Edit the functions.php (in the Atahualpa theme folder)
At about line 603 replace
$title = $post_id->post_title;
with the following
$title = ($post_id->post_title !== 'Auto Draft') ? $post_id->post_title : '';


The line you are changing is right after
$thePostID = $post->ID;
$post_id = get_post($thePostID);

So currently the three lines that are there look like
$thePostID = $post->ID;
$post_id = get_post($thePostID);
$title = $post_id->post_title;

And what should be there after the change is
$thePostID = $post->ID;
$post_id = get_post($thePostID);
$title = ($post_id->post_title !== 'Auto Draft') ? $post_id->post_title : '';

The changes above will only prevent the Auto Draft from happening in the future and will not remove any Auto Draft entries. To get rid of those you will need to get into your database. If you are not clear on what you are doing though don't do anything. As always do a backup before making any changes.

So enormously helpful! Thank you so much for helping me sort through the final pieces!
I was hoping I wouldn't have to delete and recreate all the pages I've created in the last week but I did and all in all I'm now VERY happy to have the problem solved (and to have been able to do it myself). Have a great weekend!

Me too!

Excellent problem solving.

A(nother) donation will be forthcoming tomorrow.

Ok so I tried to find that code and its not there. My functions.php only has like 450 lines.. and in the title area there is no word Auto Draft..
any idea of what to do?

also I tried to update manually and it spit out tones of errors on my site and my site went down.. so for now i'm sticking with:

Atahualpa 3.4.1

You wouldn't see the words Auto Draft in the functions.php. The code shown is what that line needs to be changed to. I would also suggest making a copy of the functions.php file in case the edit messes something up.

Also what do you mean you got tons of errors when you manually upgraded? How did you do the manual upgrade?

I just upgraded to AT 3.6.4 and now have the Auto Draft problem also. Am using WP 3.1.1.

Did this happen to anyone else?

How did you do the upgrade? What version of Atahualpa did you upgrade from?

I just used the automatic upgrade as I always do.

Based on suggestions in this thread, I went into functions.php and noted that

$title = $post_id->post_title;

was commented out with a #, so I removed the # and put a # in front of the next line:

$title = ($post_id->post_title !== 'Auto Draft') ? $post_id->post_title : '';

That seems to work on new posts.

So for now I guess I'm OK until the next upgrade.

Don't know why the default functions.php file would have this.

Now, I'm having other errors like Wordpress SEO not being able to activate. It's getting a parse error. But this probably isn't related to Atahualpa, though I guess it could be.

That comment is supposed to be on the line it was on to prevent the auto draft from occurring. The line with Auto Draft should not be commented. I am not sure why this "worked" for you but I suspect it was a fluke and that something else is going on.

Larry --

Dunno. I'm not a programmer. It just looked like the right thing to try & it did seem to work. I deleted the afflicted post and recreated it, and the title is now displaying correctly.

Why would anyone want a title of "Auto Draft" anyway? So I wonder why there's even any mention of it in the code?

As I mentioned, I am also having some parse errors in two SEO plugins, Wordpress SEO and LJ Longtail SEO, which worked fine previously.

Quite honestly, I don't know if the AT theme upgrade or the WP 3.1.1 upgrade broke these, as I had done both before I noticed any issues.

I even deleted Wordpress SEO & reinstalled it to make sure there wan't a corruption going on.

Any other suggestions?

I've got several WP sites and you can bet I'm not upgrading those anytime soon!

R_

WordPress implemented the Auto Draft creation for various reasons. It has something do do with how posts are saved. One of the later versions of Atahualpa added the line you commented out to prevent the creation of the Auto Draft Title. Some plugins may affect this as well.

I am not sure why you are running into this but you could try deactivating plugins to see if any of them are the culprit if you like.

Hey all, just dropping in on this with news of a little plugin that worked great for me and may be helpful for some of you who are having the "Auto Draft" problem replacing your page titles. This plugin was also very helpful because it deals with pesky custom fields in existing posts/pages as well. Hope this helps some of you!